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Seg 2 - WBB Show w Geno Jan 27 · Coaches Corner

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  Speaker 1: We're live at cafe or in Manchester, or we do
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  Speaker 1: a couple of shows here with the Hall of famhead
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  Speaker 1: coach versus son in law.
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  Speaker 2: Here, I have to.
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  Speaker 1: Have a warm welcome with Todd and the gang here
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  Speaker 1: and folks enjoying their dinner, the entire Polo family, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like over here, and they've adopted my wife for
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  Speaker 1: the night here. So there you go taking care of
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  Speaker 1: them guys. Yeah, yeah, I Paul and Michael do all
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  Speaker 1: the time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh gino.
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  Speaker 1: Is it any coincidence at pages? Assists numbers have gone
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  Speaker 1: through the roof, Like the last four or five games.
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  Speaker 1: I mean she could have had a double double. At
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  Speaker 1: Villanova she had nine, then she sat out a game
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  Speaker 1: or two, and then she comes back and I think
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  Speaker 1: I saw seven and nine. She had four on the Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: Is that just coincidence or you know with everybody else
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  Speaker 1: making shots or.
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  Speaker 4: Well yeah, I mean can't get an assist if the
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  Speaker 4: other person doesn't score. So the last two games before Creighton,
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  Speaker 4: you know we scored ninety six and one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Well that helps.
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  Speaker 4: So the people she was passing the ball to may
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  Speaker 4: chap that's you know, that's easy. Plus the more she
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  Speaker 4: tries to score the more since she gets people don't
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  Speaker 4: I mean, doesn't sound like it should be possible, But
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  Speaker 4: that's what happens, you know, when she's I thought the.
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  Speaker 3: Whole first half, I thought she was like really.
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  Speaker 4: Bad, like she stood around a lot, you know, And
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  Speaker 4: and that's why I think our offense kind of got
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  Speaker 4: staggered a little bit. You know when Pages, when Page
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  Speaker 4: is cutting, she's moving, she's you know, searching for the
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  Speaker 4: ball all the time. The defense is in a real
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  Speaker 4: tough spot because now somebody's got to leave their man
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  Speaker 4: to help her, and the next thing, you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: a guy open. So h in the second half, that's
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  Speaker 4: exactly what happened, you know. But yeah, that's that's that's uh,
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  Speaker 4: that's Page's game.
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  Speaker 1: I think, Okay, if she's not moving as much, does
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  Speaker 1: that does that have an effect on the movement of
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  Speaker 1: the other players.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, everybody's you know, everybody kind of takes their
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  Speaker 4: cue from Page.
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  Speaker 2: Know.
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  Speaker 4: I want to say, they're like, you know, what are
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  Speaker 4: those animals that just follow each other off the cliff
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  Speaker 4: or whatever they're called. You know, but our guys, like
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  Speaker 4: you know, Page kind of sets the tone a lot
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  Speaker 4: of times and when she's moving, we're moving. And when
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  Speaker 4: you know, when she's attacking, we're attacking.
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  Speaker 3: And when.
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  Speaker 4: She's involved defensively and forcing turnovers, everybody's doing it. So
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  Speaker 4: it's been, uh, it's been great to see the last
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  Speaker 4: three or four games. You know, I don't know, you know,
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  Speaker 4: what uh Creighton did, which I think some other teams are,
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  Speaker 4: but what Creighton did was they just shot the ball
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  Speaker 4: and ran back on defense.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: They may have gotten one offensive rebound, but very rarely
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  Speaker 4: did they go to the offensive boards.
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  Speaker 2: Had six six.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, they missed a lot of shots to only
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  Speaker 4: get six, you know, offensive rebounds. But that's how you
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  Speaker 4: take away people's transition game. And that's kind of the
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  Speaker 4: the biggest strength of our team is the biggest weakness
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  Speaker 4: of every team is their transition defense. And the best
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  Speaker 4: part of our game is our transition offense. So by
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  Speaker 4: them not you know, not offensive rebounding as much, they
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  Speaker 4: were able to get back on d So now they make.
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  Speaker 3: It, walk the ball up the floor and slock.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're playing like Philadelphia Flyers, Frost Street Bullies hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Just dump it into the corner and four guys run
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  Speaker 4: in there. To go to the hospital and two other
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  Speaker 4: guys come out with.
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  Speaker 1: The buck and they weren't overly aggressive defensively. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: your team that had thirteen steals, they had won the
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  Speaker 1: whole game, and that was not until the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 2: Sarah obviously had five.
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  Speaker 1: But KK, she's just such a difference maker when she's
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  Speaker 1: out there, and she had a tremendous loose ball scrambled
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  Speaker 1: with Lauren Jeans and then end up as Ann one.
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  Speaker 1: She's just she has really accepted that role that she's
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  Speaker 1: now in this year really really well.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I don't think she had any choice. I
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  Speaker 4: think that's when you're built like that and you have
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  Speaker 4: that skill set, you really have no other choice.
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  Speaker 3: You have to play like that.
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  Speaker 4: You have to be disruptive, you have to you know,
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  Speaker 4: make the game quicker and play at a pace that
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  Speaker 4: suits who you are and what your skill level is.
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  Speaker 4: So when Kk's being that, she's actually you know, playing
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  Speaker 4: to her strengths and and is also helping us play
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  Speaker 4: to our strengths. So you know, there's not a lot
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  Speaker 4: of guards like her, certainly not like on our team
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  Speaker 4: like her, So she provides a unique perspective for us,
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  Speaker 4: and I just think that's you know, it's great for
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  Speaker 4: her and it's great for.
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  Speaker 2: Us as a whole.
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  Speaker 1: Your sophomore class, what have you thought of their progression
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  Speaker 1: in year two?
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  Speaker 3: I think up and down, you know, I think the.
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  Speaker 4: Part you know, for us to win I gave you
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  Speaker 4: for instance, like last night, how many minutes did ash play?
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  Speaker 2: Ash play twenty four?
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  Speaker 3: Twenty four minutes and she scored two points.
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  Speaker 2: One for three, she had six rebounds.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and easy played thirty minutes thirty four. Okay, So
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  Speaker 3: thirty four.
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  Speaker 4: And twenty what twenty four? I don't know, but I
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  Speaker 4: think that sounds like fifty eight. That's I checked, and
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  Speaker 4: we got six points out of fifty eight minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And those two.
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  Speaker 4: Guys, so they have to be more productive, meaning they
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  Speaker 4: can't pass up some of the opportunities that they get,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so they've got to be on the offensive end.
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  Speaker 4: They've got to be attacking. They've got to you know,
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  Speaker 4: go in there an offensive rebound, force a turnover move
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  Speaker 4: without the ball, so you get more shots.
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  Speaker 3: And that's when we're at our best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, because if you take pages stuff and
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  Speaker 4: then Sarah's stuff, and then you add one or two more,
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  Speaker 4: well it makes this really really hard to play against.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna throw Kaitlyn in there too.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess that maybe six three pointer attempts in
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  Speaker 1: the game for hers a bit too much.
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  Speaker 4: She was kind of yeah, she was kind of feeling it.
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  Speaker 4: She was kind of feeling it because the game before
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  Speaker 4: she made a bunch. What's a bunch what you make too? Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so she made a lot the game before. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's what teams are gonna start doing now. They're gonna say,
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  Speaker 4: all right, well, when Caitlyn's in the game, we're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna guard her on the three point line. And when
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  Speaker 4: KK is in the game, we're not gonna guard her
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  Speaker 4: either on the three point line.
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  Speaker 3: So the response to that is they.
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  Speaker 4: Have to be confident enough to knock those in. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you can't say, hey, listen, don't shoot them. Then you're
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  Speaker 4: playing five on four. So you know, you say, well, wow,
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  Speaker 4: Caitlyn did a great job of getting open. Yeah, anytime
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  Speaker 4: a player's wide open, there's a good reason for that.
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  Speaker 4: The other team wants you to be What can I
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  Speaker 4: tell you what.
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  Speaker 2: About Caitlyn's defense this year? What do you like about it?
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  Speaker 4: I think she plays hard all the time. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I think we've got a great combination between her and
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  Speaker 4: KK and what we can do. You know, defensively, they're
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  Speaker 4: different offensively. They're different defensively, and I and I think
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  Speaker 4: when we have the both of them out there together,
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  Speaker 4: it's a real problem for the other team. But as
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  Speaker 4: I said, they both have to be, you know, in
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  Speaker 4: that ten to twelve point range, and that makes that
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  Speaker 4: you know, that whole combination really really tough when you've
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  Speaker 4: got those two defensively and then you have to worry
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  Speaker 4: about those two offensively.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we'll take a quick break, we'll come back,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't have to talk about injuries much, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll bring up a couple of names though.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was great to see Caroline.
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  Speaker 3: My back urts a little bit if you want to
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  Speaker 3: talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: My left hurts to talk about that. We've been doing
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  Speaker 2: that for two years.
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  Speaker 4: It's you kind of I've got a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: in this room that look like they have some makes
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  Speaker 4: and pains.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well we'll bring a micro run and then discuss
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  Speaker 1: takes and pains next.
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  Speaker 2: You kind of women's basketball coaches joe On lear Field